The winners of the 2024 World Fantasy Awards were announced and we are so excited to share that DMLA authors, Tananarive Due and Premee Mohamed, have been announced as winners! Best Novel The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK) Best Collection No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
Author of Trafficked and This Is Not a Love Letter Kim Purcell’s THE BUSY WRITER’S GUIDE TO FINISHING A NOVEL IN 100 DAYS, a writing guide for tackling a novel from start to finish, with daily tasks for developing a story arc, characters, tension, and dialogue, to Kim Keller at Ten Speed Press, in a pre-empt, for publication in fall 2026, by Jolene Haley (world).
Reactor: As with her debut novel, the immersive and compelling Star Eater, Kerstin Hall chucks you straight into Asunder and asks you to keep up. She is a master of consistent, sometimes subtle worldbuilding; anything she needs you to understand, Karys sees, or interacts with, or has cause to explain or have explained to her, succinctly and elegantly. This story sits just under the skin, a tangle of questions about faith and shame and what a person does with the power they have—or […]
Congratulations to Kate Heartfield and her book, THE TAPESTRY OF TIME, for being part of The Guardian‘s round-up for best recent science fiction, horror, and fantasy! Set in England and France during the second world war, this novel centres on a family with the gift of second sight. As rational young women, the Sharp sisters dismiss their experiences as coincidence (Kit), imagination (Ivy) or a talent for pattern recognition (Rose), until they realise they may be able to aid the […]
Locus: Told almost entirely through obituaries, it’s a frequently funny, frequently poignant book that uses its unusual form to explore connection and character…. Original and thoughtful, refreshing despite the constant centrality of death, this is highly recommended.
Library Journal: Saraswati Kaveri has left her life on Earth behind. Arriving on Primus with a bag of clothes and her little robot Kili, she is determined to take her chance on Interstellar MegaChef, the most watched cooking show of the galaxy. Primus cuisine is exacting and amalgamated, and never has an Earthen chef, with their primitive, messy techniques, participated. Serenity Ko has created the wildly popular sim SoundSpace, but a drunken celebration–turned–angry mob chase has forced the young prodigy […]
Booklist: Glover’s latest is a standalone set in the world of her Murder and Magic series (starting with The Conductors, 2021), this time set in the 1930s. Velma Frye is an African American aviator in the early days of flight. She’s also a magical investigator, and when a fight breaks out at one of her air shows, Velma leaps into action. Mysterious items seem to be provoking discord all over America. Luckily Velma’s got an airplane, a family that includes […]
Publishers Weekly: Lakshminarayan (The Ten Percent Thief) sets this delicious, futuristic flight of fancy nearly 2,000 years after humans first settled on the planet Primus, which has since far outstripped Earth in cultural and technological development. Earthling Saraswati “Saras” Kaveri knows that auditioning for Primus’s hit cooking competition show, Interstellar MegaChef, is a long shot, so when she gets accepted, she jumps at the chance to leave Earth and her manipulative family in search of fame and fortune. Saras is […]
Audio rights to Miranda Lyn’s Fae Rising series, to Kerri Buckley at Dreamscape Media, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier (NA). Audio rights to Nicky Drayden and Matthew Bey’s DEEP AUSTIN: CASE OF THE WEIRD CARNIVOROUS SKY, a tale of gonzo horror chock full of ghosts and other weirdness, plus a sequel, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Audio rights to Caitlin Starling’s THE OBLIVION BRIDE, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea […]
Korean renewal rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, and EXIT STRATEGY, the first four books in The Murderbot Diaries series, to Alma Publishing Co., by Yujung Kim at the Eric Yang Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Camilla Raines’s THE HOLLOW AND THE HAUNTED, to Eilean Books (France), at auction, in a two-book deal, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier […]